Dear Reader:

Regarding #5: not using profanity: on a couple of occasions I wrote something like “%$$##” I suppose this was not according to this guideline and I am fine with eliminating this future thing.

Regarding #4 and #8: keeping it respectful and positive- this is not as simple as it may sound. I will not call people names, of course, but someone out there is going to feel disrespected whenever I express a position that is not in line with theirs. Can’t help that and no amount of tip toeing around a subject is going to prevent someone feeling disrespected or someone feeling I am being negative. Plus sometimes I am negative.

Then there are people who are directly disrespectful and there are people (same people at different times) who are indirectly disrespectful, so it is a tough one. The clear part of this is not to call people names. I also avoid responding when feeling anger at a poster when their anger is not an attack of me- or of another.

anita